September 2018
Beginner to intermediate
174 pages
3h 27m
English
The most common type of EBS volume is general purpose SSD. Because of the price drops in solid state storage, they are fairly cost effective and deliver good performance. You may remember from the previous section how T instances accumulate credits and burst when they need CPU capacity. Well, general purpose EBS volumes do a similar thing with IOPS.
They are also good for storage for databases, and particularly ones that are in development or test environments. However, if you want consistent IOPS for EBS volumes, then you can upgrade to provisioned IOPS SSD.
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